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The diet light bulb came on last evening, or put another way, I experienced a diet epiphany! This refreshing thought came about while trying to explain what the Whole30 and Paleo diet are in there essence. I do not assume to speak for either of these diets, but rather provide a simple explanation of what their long term goal is.

This is the last diet advice you will ever need. You can stop searching the Internet for the latest and greatest diet advice. You may give away your diet books as you won’t need them any more. You can say goodby to your frustrations from trying to diet, and enjoy all the positives a better way of eating provide.

If you are not familiar with a better way to eat, here is my explanation, which is not formal, nor accepted as a proper explanation. I am sure many diet authorities would be willing to say I am wrong, so be it. First, as you know I recently completed the Whole30 program. Whole30 eating program removes all foods known to cause problems when eaten. Food allergies, intolerance, or simple indigestion followed by constipation and/or diarrhea are taken out of the 30 day diet.

I changed to the Paleo diet, which attempts to go back to the way our ancestors ate before the rise of farming and ranching. Both ways of eating are very similar from my understanding, though Whole30 is more restrictive. Either one is a great choice, but they do not easily get down to the essence of making food choices simpler. In both eating styles, there are a lot of vegetables, with some type of protein. Though knowing this does not make for a simple explanation to family and friends.

My light bulb moment was the relationship not only between these two eating styles, but comparing them to a general diet as an understandable spoken explanation of, “What I can eat”, which is the topic of much conversation these days. Now, that I made the leap to a simple explanation everyone can understand, I simply say, “I eat what you and I were fed as a baby”. Obvious and transparent with no ambiguity.

When feeding an infant starting on solid food, vegetables generally comprise the whole meal. Typically, a jar of green beans is a complete meal for an infant. Or when a little older, perhaps two vegetables, or a vegetable and fruit. Further along the infant diet, meat is added.

The last words you will ever need to read about Dieting!

There are no sweet fruit juices, candies, cakes or cookies given to a baby. At least not more than a taste. We want our babies to be healthy, wealthy, and wise, not chubby and sickly. We know how to feed an infant. My comparison to an infant’s diet struck me as a perfect explanation for an answer to, “What do I eat”? “I eat what we both ate as babies.” How succinct.

Suddenly, as if coming out a fog, friends and family understand I am not on some exotic, secret diet plan with exotic foods. They remember what they have fed to their children as infants, or have seen the foods other parents feed their infants. “What can I eat”, is clarified and taken out of the category of mystery and placed in the, well, that is obvious now category.

I no longer have to go through any long drawn out explanation, of what foods I wish to eat, and what foods I no longer eat. I simply say, I eat those types of foods we ate as infants, the same foods you were fed and fed your children as infants.

I am not sure where we transgressed from being fed wholesome healthy food to living on fast food, soda, and sweets. We did this very bad food substitution, and convinced ourselves we are eating healthy. Surprise, we’re eating like everyone else is, not eating healthy. Eating as healthy as our friends who take an average of five pills a day to offset their serious medical conditions. High blood pressure, High Cholesterol, Diabetes, Arthritis, and a host of other common diet related medical conditions which were practically unheard of a few hundred years ago.

Now don’t go out an buy baby food, the cost is too high, and the taste too bland. Instead buy the same foods you find in the infant section of the baby food aisle. In ending, you no longer need a diet plan, all you need is apply the common sense your Mother had when she fed you for your first year of life.